I lately monitored my system using sysinternals Process Monitor and found that Winamp (while idle) generates 4 queries per second (!) with a 'name not found' result (see the attached screen shot below). Any ideas as to the cause of this repetitive queries?

I strongly recommend that you download Winamp 5.35 Full, select 'Lite' as the Install Type on Screen 2 of the Installer Options (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=199851#list), then checkmark both FLAC and MP4 under Audio File Support.

You can get the Nullsoft MPC plugin here:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=266676

The support for FLAC, MP4, and MPC provided by the Nullsoft versions of the plugins is much much better than anything that those 3rd-party plugins have to offer, especially under Winamp 5.3x (ie. support for: unicode, 24bit output, replaygain, transcoder, media library, etc etc).

Tmantiko

20th June 2007, 17:21

Thanks Egg - Reinstalled with native support for the various audio formats & reduced the # of 3rd party plug-ins. The problem is now resolved.